English is the only language that turned Neanderthals, the long extinct Paleolithic hominin, into an insult and epithet. Since the naming of “Neanderthal Man” after the discovery of a skull ...

Thorin was the name given to a Neanderthal specimen found amongst a small group of Neanderthals that lived between 42,000 years and 52,000 years ago in the Grotte Mandrin, a cave located in southern ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology compared facial development in humans, Neanderthals, and chimpanzees. They discovered that human facial growth stops earlier, ...

Cave dwelling, clothing and sunscreen may be the reason Homo sapiens outlasted the Neanderthals, a new study suggests. Neanderthals became extinct about 40,000 years ago, leaving modern humans as ...

Recent research suggests that prehistoric Homo sapiens employed sunscreen and clothing to combat increased ultraviolet (UV) radiation during periods of changes in Earth's magnetic field.

Neanderthals, on the other hand, appear to have lacked these technologies and disappeared around 40,000 years ago, according to the study, published in Science Advances and led by researchers at ...

"What some of the differences are between these species, between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans, that might account for that disappearance has been a major anthropological question for ...

“The most significant findings demonstrate clear evidence of Neanderthal occupation,” Shidrang explained. “We uncovered distinct layers containing Neanderthal lithic assemblages in direct association ...

She explained: "Homo sapiens outlasted neanderthals, we are them. They co-existed until about 40,000 years ago, when the Neanderthals became extinct. There's a new study that's found that it's all ...